Ultra-wideband aided fast localization and mapping system
The architecture of the proposed system which consists of three parallel threads. The visual-inertial odometry (VIO) and UWB localization threads provide pose estimation, while the mapping thread integrates visual tracking constraints into a pose graph with the proposed smooth and virtual range constraints.Abstract
This paper proposes an ultra-wideband (UWB) aided localization and mapping system that leverages on inertial sensor and depth camera. Inspired by the fact that visual odometry (VO) system, regardless of its accuracy in the short term, still faces challenges with accumulated errors in the long run or under unfavourable environments, the UWB ranging measurements are fused to remove the visual drift and improve the robustness. A general framework is developed which consists of three parallel threads, two of which carry out the visualinertial odometry (VIO) and UWB localization respectively. The other mapping thread integrates visual tracking constraints into a pose graph with the proposed smooth and virtual range constraints, such that a bundle adjustment is performed to provide robust trajectory estimation. Experiments show that the proposed system is able to create dense drift-free maps in real-time even running on an ultra-low power processor in featureless environments.
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IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems
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